Warming-shelf for gas-or other stoves



(No Model.)

2 Sheets-Sheeb 1. J. O. OAMMAOK. WARMING SHELF FOR GAS 0R OTHER STOVES.

Patented Jan. 4, 189-8.

WITNESSES ATTORNEYS.

(No Model.) 2 SheetsSheet 2. J. G. CAMMAUK.

WARMING SHELF FOR GAS OR OTHER STOVES. No. 596,477. Patented Jan. 4, 1898.

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JOSEPH C. CAMMAOK, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 596,477, dated January 4, 1898.

Application filed July 23, 1897. Serial No. 645,671. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, Josnrn G. CAMMACK, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Penn sylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in .Varming-Shelves for Gas or other Stoves, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings.

My invention consists of a warming-shelf for a gas, vapor, or other stove which is adapted to be sustained firmly in operative position, it providing a convenient device for the purpose intended and when not required for use may be stored at the side or end of the stove, so as to be out of the way and occupy but little space.

Figure 1 represents a side elevation of a warming-shelf embodying my invention. Fig. 2 represents an end view thereof. Fig. 3 represents a horizontal section on line 50 :0, Fig. 2. Fig. 45 represents a perspective view of another form of my invention.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the figures.

Referring to the drawings, A designates a gas-stove, which is of ordinary construction.

13 designates standards which are secured to the top plate of the stove or adapted to be secured thereto and having their upper ends deflected laterally in curved or angular direction, forming arms C C, whose ends are somewhat removed from the said standards.

D designates a shelf or trayhaving a reticulated or open bottom E, one end of said traybeing connected by axes or pivots F with the arms C.

G designates shoulders which are secured to the inner sides of the standards B, near the line of the pivots F of the shelf D, for supporting the latter intermediate of its ends when in horizontal position, while the axial end of the tray is supported on the pivots F, as has been stated.

The operation is as follows: When itis desired to warm dishes or articles of food, the tray is placed in horizontal position, as shown in the drawings, where it remains supported and is prevented from'either tilting, lowering, or rising on its axes, it being also seen that the space between the top plate of the stove and the bot-tom of said tray is free or clear, and

thus no obstacle is presented to the ordinary manipulation of the stove. When the service of the shelf or tray is not required, it may be overturned and made to depend from its axis and occupy a position at the side or end of the stove, consuming but little space and placed out of the way, as shown in dotted lines. lVhen the tray is in operative position, the heat from the stove passes through the open bottom of the former and so reaches the food, dishes, plates, dcc.,placed thereon.

The standards are provided with-feet H, which are bolted to the stove-plate, thus firmly sustaining the device, while also admitting of the removal of the same, when so desired.

Owing to the strain on the standards B due to the weight superimposed upon the shelf D, said standards have depending therefrpm the screw-stems J, which pass through the top and bottom plates A and K of the stove.

On the under side of the plate A is a cross head or bar L, through which the screw-stems J pass. Nuts M are fitted on said stems and adapted to bear against said bar. Nuts P are fitted on the lower ends of the stems J and adapted to bear against the bottom plate K, by which provision the standards may be firmly connected with both said top and bottom plates and thus enabled to endure the side strain to which they are subjected when the shelf or tray is in use.

In Figs. 1 and 2 the body of the stove is shown with open sides; but it may be closed, as in Fig. at. In the latter case the top plate is sustained on the sides of the body, while in the other figures said plate is sustained by the frames Q, which are secured by bolts and nuts Q Q Q Q to the upper and lower plates A K of the body, which latter is thus respectively open or skeleton.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. Standards adapted to' be secured to the top of a stove and having laterally-projecting arms, and shoulders on the inner sides of said standards in combination with a shelf pivoted to said arms and adapted to be supported on said shoulders between its pivotal and free ends.

2. Standards having feet adapted to be se- ICO cured to the top plate of a stove, and provided with a threaded stem passing through the top and bottom plates thereof, and a tightening-nut on said stem bearing against the under face of said bottom plate, in combination with a shelf pivoted to said standards and adapted to rest on shoulders thereon.

3. In a Warming-shelf, a tray in combination with standards having arms to which it is pivoted and shoulders on which it is adapted to rest, said standards having threaded stems with nuts thereon bearing against the top and bottom plates of said stove.

4. Standardshaving rearwardly-projeating arms on their upper ends and provided with 15 cross-bar on the under side of said top plate, 20

and nuts on said threaded stems bearing against the said cross-bar and the underside of said bottom plate respectively.

JOSEPH C. OAMMACK.

Witnesses:

JoHN A. WIEDERSHEIM, A. P. JENNINGS. 

